Friday, May 31, 2002

Announcing: "The RadioPoint Tool turns the outliner into a presentation authoring program." [Dave Winer: Radio UserLand] 6:12:17 PM

U.S. Urges Americans to Leave India. The State Dept. today advised all but essential American diplomats in India to leave and urged about 60,000 Americans there to depart as well. [New York Times: Politics] 6:04:32 PM

Remembering the BBS [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] 5:58:08 PM

some links on Real Estate Investment Trusts: Business Week Article from 1997 Definition of a REIT REITs 101 The National Association of REITs 2:55:08 PM

Organizing Data Across a Heterogeneous Net? [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters] what do you do when you have a bunch of computers on your home network and you want to keep your data backed up and sync'd on all the machines? 2:27:00 PM

There are only two Open Source J2EE workflow packages - OSWorkflow and OFBiz's workflow module - and it's great to see OSWorkflow approaching 1.0. It's a great component which deserves more coverage. Now download, play and evanglise it to your friends! ;) [PSquad's Corner] [rebelutionary] 1:57:19 PM

Apache Axis vs Glue. Basically Glue wins big time. [rebelutionary] 1:55:10 PM

A List Apart: Winning the Spam Arms Race. Tips on how to encode an email address on your web page to avoid having it easily picked off by spam robots. [Scott Loftesness] 1:18:35 PM

CIO: RIP PKI. Scott Berinato talks about Public Key Infrastructure -- and how Entrust has morphed away from being a "PKI company". [Scott Loftesness] IMHO, PKI has been flatlined for years. What's surprising is that one of the leading vendors is finally admitting it. Maybe if it'd go away completely, we could develop a more useful and cost effective technology. 1:12:46 PM

Yield, Cost Lower in Organic Farming. Crop yields on organic farms averaged about 20 percent less than those on conventional farms, but the production used about 50 percent less energy and built healthier soils, a study found. [AP Science] Interesting.  Still, the important difference to me is the price difference I see at the store -- still pretty significant. 8:38:43 AM

Server sales slump in Q1. 15.2% down - Gartner [The Register] 7:38:44 AM

WSJ.  The US economy's final revised numbers for the first quarter are out.  Productivity grew at 8.4%  Unit labor costs droped 5.4%.  Average hourly compensation grew 2.8%.  An interesing set of numbers on non-financial corporate productivity:  it grew 11.2% in the fourth quarter and 6.7% in the first.  [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 7:33:59 AM

TiVo adds subscribers, pares loss. The digital recording company cuts its loss for the first quarter nearly in half compared with a year ago, as revenue and subscribers numbers grow sharply. [CNET News.com] 7:26:34 AM